Sylpheed-Claws - a GTK+ based fast e-mail and news client

Sylpheed-Claws is an e-mail client (and news reader) based on GTK+, running on X Window System, and aiming for

* Quick response

* Graceful, and sophisticated interface

* Easy configuration, intuitive operation

* Abundant features

Currently implemented features include:

o POP3 support

o IMAP4rev1 support

o integrated NetNews client

o unlimited multiple account handling

o thread display

o filtering

o MIME (attachments)

o built-in image view

o X-Face support

o multiple MH folder support

o mbox importing / exporting

o external editor support

o message queueing

o automatic mail checking

o draft message function

o template function

o line-wrapping

o clickable URI

o XML-based address book

o LDAP, vCard, and JPilot support

o newly arrived and unread message management

o Mew/Wanderlust-like key bind

o printing

o APOP authentication support

o SMTP AUTH support

o SSL support (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4rev1)

o IPv6 support

o drag & drop (partially implemented)

o GnuPG support (currently implementing)

o automake + autoconf support

o internationalization of messages by gettext

o support of many code sets, including UTF-8 (Unicode) (when using libjconv)

o support for plugins

This list is not complete.

--compose [address]

--subscribe [uri]

--attach file1 [file2]...

--receive

--receive-all

--send

--status

--status folder[/subfolder]

--status-full

--online

--offline

--debug

--help

--version

--config-dir

$HOME/Mail

Default directory for mail storage

$PREFIX/share/sylpheed-claws

Global program directory

$PREFIX/share/sylpheed-claws/manual

Manual files in HTML format

$PREFIX/share/sylpheed-claws/themes

Global themes directory

$PREFIX/lib/sylpheed-claws/plugins

Directory for plugins

$PREFIX/include/sylpheed-claws

Directory for header files

$HOME/.sylpheed-claws

Default directory for user's configuration files directory

$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/themes

User's themes directory

$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/accountrc

Configuration for account(s)

$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/addrbook*

Addressbook files

$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/command_history

User-specified commands

$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/customheaderrc

Configuration for custom headers for sending mail

$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/dispheaderrc

Configuration for custom display of headers in message view

$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/matcherrc

Filtering and Processing function configuration

$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/folderlist.xml

Folder hierarchy listing

$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/menurc

Menu shortcut-key configuration

$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/sylpheed-claws.log

Sylpheed logfile

$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/sylpheedrc

Main configuration file

To run this program the standard way type:

sylpheed-claws

Alternatively you can run it with the following options:

--debug

for debug mode

--compose [address]

to open a Compose window

--subscribe [uri]

subscribe to the given URI if possible

--attach file1 [file2]...

open composition window with specified files attached

--compose "mailto:%t?subject=%s&cc=%c&body=%b"

this syntax can be used in web-browsers and CLI to open a pre-populated Compose window

--receive

receive new messages

--receive-all

receive new messages from all accounts

--send

send all queued messages

--status

show the total number of messages

[new][unread][unread answers to marked][total]

--status folder[/subfolder]

show the total number of messages in specified folder

[new][unread][unread answers to marked][total]

--status-full

show the total number of messages per folder

[new][unread][unread answers to marked][total]

--online

Start sylpheed in (or switch to, if already running) online mode

--offline

Start sylpheed in (or switch to, if already running) offline mode

--help

display the help message and exit

--version

display version number and exit

--config-dir

display the CONFIG-DIR and exit

This program requires GTK+ 2.4.x or higher to be compiled.

Please make sure that gtk-devel and glib-devel (or similar) packages are installed before the compilation (you may also require flex (lex) and bison (yacc)).

To compile and install, just type:

% ./configure

% make

% su

Password: [Enter password]

# make install

Refer to ./configure --help for further information.

The Sylpheed-Claws Team

Holger Berndt <berndth@users.sf.net>

Hoà Viêt Dinh <hoa@users.sf.net>

Darko Koruga <darko@users.sf.net>

Ricardo Mones Lastra <mones@users.sf.net>

Colin Leroy <colinleroy@users.sf.net>

Thorsten Maerz <netztorte@users.sf.net>

Paul Mangan <twb@users.sf.net>

Martin Schaaf <mascha1@users.sf.net>

wwp <wwp@users.sf.net>

Previous team members

Keith Edmunds

Match Grun

Melvin Hadasht

Oliver Haertel

Christoph Hohmann

Alfons Hoogervorst

Leandro A. F. Pereira

Luke Plant

Martin Schaaf

Carsten Schurig

Sergey Vlasov

Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Sylpheed-Claws Homepage

<http://claws.sylpheed.org>